Eye mounting for dolls



Dec. 9, 1930. L. J. GRUBMAN EYE MOUNTING FOR DOLLS Filed Jan. 18, 1927 2Sheets-Sheet INVENTOR 772d)? ATT RxEY m. 9, 1930. J. GRUBMAN EYEMOUNTING FOR DOLLS Filed Jan. 18, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 BY y/r "BATTNEYINV NTOR 26 0 .ffira mam Patented Dec. 9, 1930 i LEO 631731113, 0]!BELLE HARBOR, NEW YORK mm momma ron nous Application filed January 18,1927. Serial No. 181,728. I

.This invention relates to eye mountings for dolls, and has for itsprimary object to rovide a simple and easily applied means forretaining. an oscillatory eye settin in supported relation to the frontwall 0 the doll head and with the spaced eye members thereofaccuratelyrelated to the eye openings in the head wall and which will also permitof the free and unretarded oscillatory motion of the eye members totheiropen and closed positions. It is a more particular obiect of the presentimprovements to provide suitable means on the wall of the doll head andwith respect to which the eye openings are accurately located in thefront wall thereof which is adapted to support the eye setting forbodily movement at right angles to the axis of oscillation togetherwithretaining means attached to the 'head wall adjacent the eye openingsand including a part contacting with a part of the eye setting andyieldingly urging the setting forwardlyto hold the eye members incooperative relation with said supporting means and adjacent to theedges of the eye openings in the head wall.

It is also an additional object of the invention to provide anoscillatory eye setting for dolls havingan improved form of weightedpendulum for attachment to the shaft or axis-thereof and a simplyconstructed attaching element or clip which may be easily and quicklyapplied to rigidly connect said pendulum to the shaft. In a preferableembodiment of the invention, I form this pendulum from a length of smallgauge resilient wire bent into U-shape form havlng its spaced armsconnected intermediate of their ends by a suitable weight. Theextremities of this wire pendulum by contact with an abutment shoulderon the front wall of the doll head. serve to cushion the movement of theeyes to their open positions, said abutment and the shaft or axis of theeye setting being relatively located so that the Weight of the pendulumwill have a tendency to prevent casual oscillatory motion of the eyesetting while the doll head is disposed in an upright position.

With the above and other ob ects in view,

clip for attaching the invention consists in the improved eye mount lngfor dolls and in the form, constructlon and relative arrangement of itsseveral parts as will'be hereinafter more fully descr bed, illustratedin the accompanying drawings, and subsequently incorporated in the suboined claims.

In the drawings, wherein I have disclosed one snnple and practicalembodiment of the invention, and in which similar reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views,-- I

Flgure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the front wall of a dollhead show mg the eyelsetting and the retaining member 1n their initialassembled positions before final attachment of said member'to the headwall:

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation with the parts in the relativeposit'ion shownin Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 1 showing the relativepositions of the eye setting and retaining member after the latter hasbeen attached to the head wall;

* F1g. 4 is a rear elevation similar to Fig. 2 with the parts in therelative positions of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is ahorizontal sectional view taken substantially on the line 5-5of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective View of the v the pendulum to the shaftof the eye setting.

In a prior application for patent Serial No. 153,485 filed by me onDecember 9, 1926, I have disclosed an eye mounting whereinthe eyesetting and the supporting member therefor are first assembled andarranged within the doll head and the eye members of the setting engagedwith the walls of the spaced eye openings and with the shaft or axisengaged upon guiding surfaces of the supporting member. Thereafter arelative lengthwise movement is imparted to said supporting member andthe doll head whereby parts of the supporting member are fixedly impaledin the structure of the head wall and the axis of the setting ispositioned upon suitably formed bearing seats on the supporting memberMy present disclosure differs from the subject matter of this priorapplication with the wall impaling means as in my prior constructionoperative upon the relative lengthwise movement of said member and thedoll head whereby the member is securely anchored to the head wall.

In the illustrated embodiment of my present improvements, I have shown aportion of a doll head 5 which may be molded from wood pulp, papiermach, or other suitable composition material, and is provided in itsfrontwall with the usual eye openings, one of which is'indicated at 6and which are arranged in appropriately spaced relation to the othermolded facial features of the head wall. The opposite side walls of thehead adjacent to the front wall thereof are internally provided with theprojections or enlargements indicated at 7 having convex or roundedlateral surfaces inwhich the horizontal channels or grooves 8 areformed. As will be noted from reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings, these grooves or channels at their rear ends merge into thesurfaces of the projections 7 and at their forward ends terminate in theabrupt angular shoulders 9. These grooves or channels provide a suitablemeans on opposite sides of the doll head which may be advantageouslyemployed in cutting or piercing the eye openings 6 through the frontwall of the doll head by means of a tool such as that disclosed in asecond application for patent filed by me Serial No. 141,- 207, onOctober 12, 1926, and whereby said eye openings and the grooves 8 may bevery accurately located with relation to each other so that when the eyesetting is subsequently positioned in the doll head with the ends of itsaxis disposed in the grooves 8, the individual eye members will properlyseat within the respective eye in the head wall whereby the pupils onthe surfaces of the eye members will be accurately centered withrelation to the eye openings. As will be clearly seen from reference tothe drawings, the shaft of the eye setting is of appreciably lessdiameter than the width of the grooves 8 so that under normal operatingconditions, the shaft ends do not rest on the shoulders at the lowersides of these grooves, but the eye setting is sustained in suchoperative position relative to the'doll head solely by reason of contactbetween the spaced eye members and the lower parts of the concave wallsof the eye sockets 6'.'

formed 7 these eye shells sockets 6' formed 'Above the eye openings inthe front wall of the doll head, said wall is formed with an internalpro ection or enlargement 10 thereon having a central verticallydisposed groove or channel 11 therein which is 0 en at its rear side andupon the lower edge face of said projection. In vertical alignment withthis roove or channel, and at the chin portion 0% the doll head wall, aninternal abutment shoulder indicated at 12 is formed upon said wall. Thestruction will hereafter ecome apparent.

The eye setting which I have selected for the purpose of illustrating apractical embodiment of mypresent improvements includes a suitable shaftor axis preferably having a cylindrical central portion 13, cylindricalend portions 14 and the intermediate rectangular portions 15. Thecylindrical end portions of said shaft are adapted for engagement in therespective horizontal channels or grooves 8 on the opposite sides of thehead wall. These end portions of the shaft extend through openings inthe outer sides of the eye members 16, which as herein shown are in theform of hollow shells. The openings in the inner sides of are ofrectangular form and the rectangular portions 15 snugly receive of theshaft or axis and efieetually preventany turning or rotating movement ofthe eye members relative to said shaft.

For the purpose of imparting the oscillatory motion to the eye setting,I rovide a suitable pendulum, which as herein shown includes a suitablelength of small gauge resilient' wire which is centrally bent intoelongated U-shaped form to provide the spaced parallel legs 17 rigidlyconnected to each other intermediate of their ends by a suitably formedWeight 18. The two legs 17 of said wire pendulum adjacent their point ofconnection by the bight of the elongated loop are bent to provideangularly related parts 19 and 20 respectively. These parts 19 and 20are adapted to be engaged upon two adj acent faces of the spacedrectangular parts 15 of the shaft or axis and with the bight portion 21projecting forwardly from one of said surfaces. The pendulum is fixedlyretamed in connection with the shaft or axis by means of a stamped sheetmetal clip of the form shown in Fig. 6, said clip embodymg a sheet metalplate 22 adapted for engagement against the front side of the centra lcylindrical part 13 of the shaft or axis. This plate at one ofitsendsisprovided withthe angularly bent arms 23 to extend rearwardly under theinner ends of the rectangular por-v tions 15 of the shaft, said armsterminating in the hooks 24 adapted for engagement around the respectivelegs 17 of the pendulum as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings The other end of the plate 22 also termlnates in a hook 25which is engaged overthe bight portion 21 of the pendulum pendulum wiremay e securely locked to the shaft or axis of the eye setting.

The means for retaining the eye setting in its applied position andyieldin ly urging the shaft or axis thereof forwar ly in the grooves orchannels 8 to hold the respective eye members in close engagement withthe. surfaces of the eye sockets includes a stamped channel shaped sheetmetal member, 26, the side flanges of which atone of their endsterminate in longitudinally projecting spurs 27. The other end portionsof the said flanges are reduced in width as indicated at 28 and theedges thereof provide iding surfaces 30 as will be hereinafter reerredto. The wider ortions of these side flanges are also provi ed in spacedrelation to the spurs 27 with the laterally projecting wings 31 havinbeveled or inclined edge portions 32. The intermediate body portion ofthe channel shaped member has a tongue or extension 33 projectinglongitudinally beyond the ends of the flange sections 28 and whichconstitutes a positive stop definitely limitingthe rearward movement ofthe shaft or axis of the eye setting.

To the intermediate part of the channel shaped member and on the innerside thereof at a point adjacent the spurs 27 one end of a leaf spring34 is fixedly attached. As a convenient means for attaching this spring.I provide the channel shaped member with the spaced parallel slots 35therein through which the end of the leaf spring may be passed orthreaded and its extremity caused to exert a tight bearing pressureagainst the inner face of the plate. From its attached end, the leafspring normallyextends at an inclination towards the open side of thechannel shaped member and the free end thereof projects beyond the stoptongue 33.

In the application of he eye setting to the dell head, said setting andthe member 26 are first assembled in substantially-the relativepositions shown in Fig. 1 of the drawin s. Preferably, I mount themember 26 ina re atively stationary position on a suitable tool arm (notshown) extending through the neck of the doll head. The doll head istilted slightly from the position shown in Fi 1 of mani ulation of thedoll head and a relative lengt wise movement is then imparted to thedoll head and the member 26. In this movement, it will be understoodthat the shaft or axis of the eye setting will slide along the guidingsurfaces 20. It will'be noted that the channel shaped member 26 extendsinto the groove or channel 11 in the projection 10 so that in suchrelative movement of the parts, the inclined edges 32 of the wings 31cut into the structure of said projection at the opposite sides of saidchannel and at the end of such relative movement, the spurs 27 impalethemselves in said structure at the upper end of the channel 11. At thistime, the rectangular parts of the axis of the eye sett ng move off ofthe guiding surfaces 30 and said axis is positioned below the flangesections 28 as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings. When the head is moved toan u right position, the spring 34 at its lower on bearing-against therear side of the central cylindrical part 13 of the shaft will exert aconstant forward pressure against the same, thus holding the surfaces ofthe two eye members 16 in close contact with the surfaces of the eyesockets 6' in the head wall. It will thus be apparent that since the eyemembers are first engaged in contact with I the walls of the eye socketsand the rear side of the shaft or axis of the setting'is engaged withthe guiding surfaces 30, there is a definite relationship between theanchoring spurs 27 and wings 31 of the member 26 and the eye openingswhich determines the point of engagement of said anchoring portions ofthe member 26 with the doll head structure and therefore, the positionof the stop tongue or projection'33 of said member relative to the shaftor axis after the latter has moved off of the surfaces 30. After theretaining member 26 has thus been attached, the structure of theprojection 11 will expand sulfa ciently below the lower ends of theWings 31 to securely lock said anchoring member against any possibilityof longitudinal displacement from the channel 11 under its own weight.When the doll head is tilted to a definitely inclined position, the axisof the under the Weight of the eye setting, the leaf spring 34 willyield sufliciently to insure a recedent movement of the eyes out of suchfrictional bearing contact with the walls of the eye sockets aswould'impedeo'r retard their free oscillating motion. When the doll headis returned to its upr ght position the,

oscillating movement of the eye setting is reversed under the action ofthe weight 18 and the eyes assume an open position with respect to theeye openings 6, at which-time the lower ends of the legs 17 of the wirependulum contact against the abutment shoulder 12. .As this wire isrelatively thin and highly resilient, said projecting end portions ofthe wire legs 17 will yield slightly relative to the weight 18. 7

As heretofore stated, in this open position of the eyemembers, the eyesetting is supported against bodily vertical displacement by integralparts of the doll head wall,

namely, the-lower portions of the eye sockets 6,. The grooves 8 merelyserveas guiding ways for the ends of the shaft orhxis of the eyesetting, the lower sides of said grooves acting as stops preventing thecomplete downward vertical displacement of the eye setting in the eventthe doll is subjected to a severe jar and enabling the spring 34 tofunction and urge the eye setting forwardly to again position the eyemembers in proper cooperative relation with the walls of the respectiveeye sockets. Therefore, it will be apparent that if desired, in lieu ofthe grooves 8, the side walls of the doll head might be formed simplywith horizontally projecting shoulders similar to the shoulders providedby'the lower sides of the grooves 8 and above which the ends of theshaft or axis 15 are positioned.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction, manner of application andseveral advanta es of my 1111- proved eye mounting will e clearly andfully understood. It will be seen that the member 26 in this case actssolely as are-' taining means for the eye setting limiting the relativemovement of its shaft or axis in the guiding slots or grooves 8 in theopposite side walls of the doll head and no weight or strain is imposedupon said member 26 such as would have a tendency to lessen-the securityof its anchorage to the doll head wall. Also it will be apparent thatthe mannerof assemblage of the two parts and the method of attachment inapplied relation to the wall of the doll head insures the greatestfreedom of oscillatory motion of the eye setting, while atvthe same timeeflectively precluding any possibility of such displacement of the eyesetting as to cause the eye members thereof to assume an inoperativeposition relative to the eye sockets upon the walls of which the eyesetting is supported. Also by reason of my new pendulum construction andthe manner of its attachment to the axis of the eye setting, I eliminateexcessive jar or vibration, and since the retaining member 26 carriesits own anchoring means whereby it is fixedly secured to the doll headwall, it will be evident that the application of the eye setting in itsproper operative .position may be very easily and quickly accomplished.

I have herein disclosed an embodiment of the eye setting which I havefound to be highly satisfactory in practical use, and also a orm of theretaining member 26 which is simple, inexpensive and affords the desiredsecurity in its attachment to the head wall. Nevertheless, it ispossible that the essential features of my present disclosure might alsobe incorporated in various other alternative mechanical structures.Accordingly, it is to be understood that the privilege is reserved ofresorting to all such legitimate changes in the form, proportionandrelative arrangement of the several elements as may be fairly embodiedwithin the spirit and scope of the rearwardly of the central portion ofthe shaft for engagement thereby to constitute a stop limiting therearward movement of the shaft and the eye members relative to the dollhead wall.

2. In combination, a doll head having horizontal shoulders in itsopposite sides adjacent the front wall thereof, an oscillatory eyesetting having a shaft positioned with its ends above said shoulders andnormally out of com tact therewith, and eye members fixed on said shaftmovable therewith towards and from the front wall of the doll head, saidshoulders limiting downward vertical movement of'the setting, andadditional yieldable means mounted on the doll head wall contacting withthe rear side of said shaft to yieldingly resist rearward movement ofthe shaft and the eye members relative to the front wall of the dollhead.

3. In combination, a doll head having horizontal shoulders in itsopposite sides adjacent the front wall thereof, an oscillatory eyesetting having a shaft positioned with its ends above said shouldersandnormally out of relative to the front wall of the doll head.

4. In combination, a doll head having eye sockets in its front wall,anoscillatory eye setting having a shaft and eye members thereon, meanson opposite side walls of the head guidin said shaft at its ends formovement towar s and from the front wall of the doll head, a retainingmember for the eye setting fixed to the front wall of the doll headshaft to urge the same forwardly and hold I the eye members in theiropen positions in close engagement with the surfaces of the eye socketsin the doll head wall.

5. In combination a dollhead having eye sockets in its front wall, anoscillatory eye setting having a shaft and eye members thereon, means onopposite side walls of the head guidin said shaft at its ends formovement towar s and from the front wall of the doll head, aretaining'memher for the eye setting fixed to the front wall of thedollhead and having a part positioned rearwardly of said shaftconstituting a stop limiting'rearward movement of the shaft and the eyemembers relative to the front wall of the doll head, and a spring onsaid member having a free end interposed between said depending portionof the retaining member and the shaft and yieldably urging said shaftforwardly to hold the eye members in close 'engagement with the surfacesof the eye sockets in the doll .head wall.

6. In combination, a doll head having horizontal grooves in its sidesadjacent the front wall thereof and spaced eye sockets in said wall,said grooves being open at their rear ends, an eye setting including ashaft having spaced eye members thereon, said shaft adapted for movementat its ends in said grooves, and means yieldingly urging the shaftforwardly in said grooves to hold the eye members in their openpositions in close. engage ment with the surfaces of the .eye sockets inthe head wall, and said means yieldingly resisting rearward movement ofthe shaft and the recedent movement of the eye members relative to saideye openings in the oscilla-.

tory motion of the eye members. a

7. In combination, a doll head having horizontal grooves in its sidesadjacent the front wall thereof, said grooves being open attheir I rearends, an eye setting including a shaft having spaced eye membersthereon, said shaft adapted for movement at its ends in said grooves,and a member fixed to the front wall of the doll head havin a partpositioned at the rear side of said s aft to retainthe eye setting inassembled relation with the doll head and prevent a rearward movement of.the doll-head having a part positioned rearwardly of the centralportion of said shaft and constituting a support therefor to sustain theeye setting in the closed osition of the eye members independently o theside walls.

of the doll head a 9. In combination, a doll head'having horizontalgrooves in its opposite sides adjacent the front wall thereof andspaced'eye sockets in said wall, said grooves being open at their rearends an oscillatory eye setting including a shaft the ends of said shaftbeing positioned in said grooves, and a yieldable member mounted uponthe front wall of the doll head coacting with said'shaft to urgethe sameforwardly in said grooves and hold the eye members in their openpositions in close engagement with the surfaces of the eye sockets, andsaid member constituting ayieldable bearin for the shaft in theoscillatory motion 0 the eye members to their closed positionspermitting of a simultaneous recedent movement of the members recedefrom the sockets, a yieldable member mounted upon the front wall of thedoll'head coacting with said shaft to urge the same forwardly in saidgrooves and hold the eye members in their open positions in closeengagement with the surfaces of the eye sockets, and said memberconstituting a yieldable bearing for the shaft in the oscillatory motionof the eye members to their closed positions permitting-of asimultaneous recedent movement of the eye members with respect to theeye sockets, and additional relatively fixed means positioned incooperative relation to a part of the eye setting and constituting apositive stop to limit the recedent movement of the eye members.

spaced eye sockets in its front wall, an oscillatory eye settingincluding a shaft and spaced eye members thereon, means on oppo sitesides of the doll head to coact with the shaft at its ends and preventbodily vertical displacement of the setting from its operaand spaced eyemembers thereon,

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tive position while permitting of the bodily rectilinear movement ofsaid shaft and the eye members toward and from the front wall of thedoll head, a member having parts embedded in the structure of said headwall to positivelyfix said member in relation to said wall and the eyesetting, said member having a part positioned rearwardly of said shaftand positively limiting the rearward movement of the shaft with respectto said means and the recedent movement of the eye members relative tothe eye openings in the oscillatory motion of said members to theirclosed positions, and means carried by said fixed member and coactingwith said shaft to urge said shaft and the eye members forwardly andhold the latter in their open positions in close engagement with thesurfaces of the eye sockets in the head wall.

12.' In combination, a doll head having 1 nternal projections on its oposite sides ad acent the front wall thereo and spaced eye sockets in itsfront wall, each of said projections having a horizontal shoulder, thefront wall of the doll head having an 1nternal projection thereon abovethe eye openings provided with a vertical channel therein open at itslower end, an eye setting 1ncluding a shaft and spaced eye membersthereon, the ends of said shaft being positioned above said shoulders, achannel shaped retaining member having side flanges provided withanchoring projections and reduced portions for contact with the rearside of said shaft, and a part dependingbelow said flange portions, saidretaining member and the doll head with the eyes engaged in the eyesockets adapted for movement relative to each other to embed theprojecting parts of said member in the wall structure and secure saidmember in fixed position within said channel, the shaft of the eyesetting being thereby pesitioned below said reduced portions of thechannel flanges and said depending part of the retaining member limitingrearward movement of said shaft,

and a leaf spring fixed at one of its ends to said channel member andbearing against the rear side of the shaft to yieldingly urge the sameforwardly to hold the eye members in their open positions in closeengagement with the surface of the eye sockets.

13. An oscillatory eye setting for dolls comprising a shaft and spacedeye members thereon, a pendulum consisting of an elongated resilientlyyieldable U-shaped wire, a weight member connecting the spaced legs ofthe pendulum intermediate of their ends, and a metal clip engageablewith said shaft and with the connected ends of said spacedlegs of thependulum to fixedly connect the shaft and the pendulum with each other.

14. An oscillatory eye setting for dolls comprising a shaft and spacedeye members thereon, a pendulum consisting of an elongated resilientlyyieldable U=shaped wire, a weight member connecting the spaced legs ofthe pendulum intermediate of their ends, said shaft having angularlyrelated surfaces and the connected ends of the pendulum legs havingangularly bent portions engaged with said surfaces, and a metal clipengaged with the shaft and having parts coacting with the bight portionof the wire pendulum and the spaced legs thereof to fixedly connect saidpendulum to the shaft.

15. An oscillatory eye setting for dolls comprising a shaft and spacedeye members thereon, a pendulum consisting of an elongated resilientlyyieldable U-shaped wire, a weight member connecting the spaced legs ofthe pendulum intermediate of their ends, said shaft having angularlyrelated surfaces and the connected ends'of the pendulum legs havingangularly bent portions engaged with said surfaces, and a clip havingparts engaged with other angularly related surfaces on said shaft andprovided with parts adapted to be bent around the spaced legs and thebight portion of the wire pendulum to thereby rigidly connect saidpendulum with the shaft.

16. An oscillatory eye setting for dolls comprising a shaft havingcylindrical end portions adapted for engagement with suitable supportsupon the side walls of a doll head and polygonal shaped intermediateportions, hollow eye members having openings in their opposite sides oneof which receives one of the polygonal portions of the shaft to preventrelative rotative movement between the shaft and the eye member, apendulum consisting of a small gauge resiliently yieldable wire havinglaterally spaced angular portions engaged with angularly relatedsurfaces of the polygonal portions of the shaft, a metal clip engagedwith the shaft and having parts engaged with the pendulum wire tofixedly connect said wire to the shaft, and a weight member fixed uponthe pendulum wire in spaced relation to the shaft.

17. In an oscillatory eye setting for dolls, an eye carrying memberhaving angularly related surfaces, a pendulum consisting of a length ofresilient wire having angularly bent portions in engagement with saidsurfaces of said member. a metal clip engaged with said member andhaving parts engaged with said pendulum wire to fixedly secure theangular portions of said wire to the eye carrying member, and a weightsecured to said wire in spaced relation to said member.

, 18. In an oscillatory eye setting for dolls, an eye carrying memberhaving angularly related surfaces, a pendulum consisting of an elongatedresiliently yieldable U-shaped wire, the spaced legs of said wire attheir connected ends having angularly bent portions for engagement withsaid surfaces of said member, a clip engagedwith said member and havingparts adapted to be bent around and an internal abutment shoulder on thelower portion of said wall; an oscillatory eye 'setting supported bysaidmeans for rectilinear movement towards and fromthe front wall of thedoll head, said eye setting including an eye carrying member, apendulumconsisting of a small gauge'resilient wire, means securing saidpendulum wire to the eye carrying member, a weight element secured tothe wire in spaced relation to' one end thereof, said end portion of thependulum wire adapted to engage the abutment shoulder and yieldrelatively to the weight in the oscillatory motion of theeyes to openposition, andmeans secured to the doll head wall in cooperative relationwith the eye carrying member to limit the rearward bodily movement ofthe eye setting.

20. In combination, a. doll head having eye sockets, an oscillatory eyesetting including spaced eye members positioned within said sockets andsupporting the setting for oscillatory motion by contact with the socketwalls, a member on the head wall having a part positioned rearwardly ofthe eye setting for engagement by a part thereof to constitute a stoplimiting the rearward bodily movement of the setting relative to saidsockets, yieldable means interposed between said member and the eyesetting coacting with the latter to urge the same forwardly and hold theeye members in close engagement with the walls of the eye sockets, andadditional means integrally'formed with the wall of the doll headandconstituting a stop engageable by parts of the eye setting to prevent downward vertical movement thereof to a permanently displacedposition out ofoperative relation with the eye sockets.

21. In combination with a doll having eye. sockets,-a n oscillatoryeye-setting including spaced eye members and an axis connecting thesame, and means for retaining the eye setting in applied positioncomprising an elongated member having a longitudinally extending bearingsurface intermediate of its ends for contact with the rear side of theaxis of the eye setting to hold the eye members in contact with thewalls of the respective sockets during a vertical movement of saidretaining member, said member at one ofi'tsv ends being provided withmeans cooperating with a part on the doll head wall in the ver, ticalmovement of said member to rigidly fix said member with respectto thehead wall,

and position said-bearing surface above the axis of the eye setting,-and'said member beyond one. end of said bearing surface beingconstructed to provide'a part in non-contacting relation to theunderside of the axis but providing an abutment rearwardly of the axisto limit lateral rearward movement of the setting which is sustainedagainst vertical movement relative to the front wall of the doll head bycontact of the eye members with the walls of the eye sockets.

- 22. In combination witha doll having-eye sockets, an oscillatory eyesetting including spaced e'ye'members and an axis connecting the same,and means for retaining the eye setting in applied position comprisingan elongated member having a longitudinally extending bearing surfaceintermediate of its ends for contact with the rear side of the axis ofthe eye setting to hold the eye members in contact with the walls of therespective sockets during a vertical movementof said retaining member,said member at one of its ends being provided with means cooperatingwith a part on the doll head wall in the verti-' cal movementof saidmember to rigidly fix said member with respect to the head wall, andposition said bearing surface above the axis of the eye setting, and theother end of said member beyondone end of said bearing surface beingconstructed to provide a part in non-contacting relation to theunderside of the axis but providing an abutment rearwardly of the axisto limit lateral rearward movement of the setting which is sustainedagainst vertical movement relative to the front wall of the doll headbycontact ofthe eye members with the walls of the eye sockets, and ayieldable element interposed between said lower end of the'retainingmember and the axis of the eyesetting to yieldably resist movement ofthe setting ,away from the eye sockets during oscillatory motionthereof.

23. In combination with a doll head having eye sockets, an oscillatoryeye setting including spaced eye members and an axis connecting thesame,and means for-retaining the eye setting in applied positioncomprising an elongated retaining member having means at one of its endsto impale the front wall of the doll head and anchor said memberthereto, said member being provided with a longitudinally extendingbearing surface to engage the rear side of the axis of the eye settingand hold the eye members in engagement upon the walls of the respectiveeye sockets during a relative vertical movement of said retaining memberto engage the impaling means in the wall structure, said bearing surfacebeing thereby positioned wholly above the axis of the eye settingtorelease the latter for rearward recedent movement relative to the eyesockets, and the other end of said member projecting below said bearingsurface and being constructed to provide a part in non-con- III tactingrelation to the underside of the axis but providing an abutmentrearwardly of the axis to limit such recedent movement, and the eyesetting being sustained 'against vertical movement by contact of the eyemembers with the Walls of the respective eye sockets.

24. In combination with a doll head having eye sockets, an oscillatoryeye setting including spaced ey'e members and an axis connecting thesame, and means for retaining the eye setting in applied positioncomprising an elongated retaining member having means at one of its endsto impale the front Wall of the doll head and anchor said memberthereto, said member being provided with a longitudinally extendingbearing surface to engage the rear side of the axis of the eye settingand hold the eye members in engagement upon the walls of the respectiveeye sockets during a relative verticalmovement of said retaining memberto engage the impaling means in the wall structure, said bearing surfacebeing thereby positioned wholly above the axis of the eye setting torelease the latter for rearward recedent movement relative to the eyesockets. and the other end of said member projecting below said bearingsurface and being constructed to provide a part in non-contactingrelation to the underside of the axis but providing an abutmentrearwardly of the axis to limit such recedent movement, the eye settingbeing sustained against vertical movement by contact of the eye memberswith the walls of the respective eye sockets, and a leaf spring fixed atone of its ends to said retaining member and having its other free endinterposed between the rear side of the axis of the eye setting and saidlower end of the retaining member to yieldingly cushion the recedentmovement of the eye setting. 7

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name hereto.

. LEO J. GRUBMAN.

